Answer: quickened the spread of knowledge, discoveries, and literacy
<span>The government's reaction was to absorb more political power, dump the gold based currency, and replace it with promissory notes. They then created make work jobs and flooded the market with this currency. Nothing improved until Imperial Japan attacked and Germany declared war on the US. Private factories were re-started and competed with one another for government war contracts. After the war, the depression should have returned, but something was altered: the US was left with the only functioning factories --- unlike the UK, Germany, France, Italy, and Japan, US factories were not leveled by bombing. This meant that Americans had a monopoly on manufactured goods, and two countries -- former enemies-- that could be rebuilt and turned into ready markets for American goods. The US walked out of WWII rich, with just a few cyclical recessions that healed themselves. As a result, the government slowly came back into the market to get its cut. The War on Poverty, the slow trend to absorb health care, union greed, and continual addition of hidden tax resources increased the drag on the free-enterprise private sector of the economy. This has made the US non-competitive in a global world market. To remedy the situation, nationalization of the private sector continues under populist socialist pressures, and I suspect that the depression is coming back and the hey-day of US economic power will not return very soon. The public treasury went bust long ago.
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Answer: B. Japan attempts to modernize by industrializing and opening itself to foreign trade.
Explanation:
When the United States made a show of force off the Japanese coast in 1853 in the form.of large warships, the very competitive Japanese saw that they were far behind the United States in terms of technology.
This could not stand so they made plans to open up their doors to foreign trade. However, some leading Japanese figures saw that a threat of being colonized existed if their political institutions were too weak. The solution they saw was the restoration of the Emperor. The Emperor had always been Emperor but real power for centuries had lain with the Shogun of the Tokugawa Shogunate.
Upon the Restoration and ascent of Emperor Meiji on February 3, 1867, the Meiji Era kicked in later that year in part and fully in the 1868. This period saw the Japanese embrace industrialization and foreign trade with such zeal that by the beginning of the 20th century they were being compared to European powers.
They shipped materials to Northern Markets but there main goal was to ship crude materials